Scrap

While I was sorting last night, I came across an older edition of George Eliot's "A Mill on the Floss." My guess is that it was from the 1870s. Inside I found all sorts of illustrations, but not from the original book. A previous owner had meticulously trimmed and pasted in dozens of illustrations, likely clipped from magazines and newspapers of the era. There were too many to photograph, so I put together a short video:

Thanks, Bob H., for the link to the Folger exhibition on grangerized books. In this example, the book seems to serve merely as an album, with no relation between the images and the text, or indeed among the images, as far as one can tell. Instead, it's just a record of the creator's interests, fixed (apparently) on flowers and firearms, and the occasional chicken.